@HP so you admit the left spins reality. Good to know. But do you recognize your argument? Whose fault is it that the left is more skillful at spinning reality? The left’s fault. Lying is not a good thing. And what you are doing is saying yes, the left lies, but according to their lies, what they say is true. And you are trying to spin more reality to try making those lies more real. Do you even know how the insurance companies establish their rates for nuclear plants? No, you don’t. All you know is that if you try spinning it to support an argument, it must be true. The truth is far more intricate than how you pay auto insurance. All those oversight groups I mentioned have a play into the rates.
If those oversight groups say there might be a problem, it is a data point in determining rates. And a lot of what those groups look at are minutiae. And a lot of the minutiae is created by the plant itself. Every nuclear plant in this country and a very detailed and intricate training program. Every nuclear plant has a problem reporting system called a Condition Report program. And just about every minor mistake is documented in a condition report. That report is then evaluated, investigated and a corrective action is created to make sure that problem doesn’t happen again. And when I am talking “minor” I mean minor.
To put it into civilian terms, think about hand washing dishes. You would have a procedure for doing that task. You would have to be trained and evaluated on that task before you would be allowed to do it by yourself. You would be required at all times to follow the procedure verbatim and if the procedure doesn’t work, you would have to stop, put everything into a safe condition, and get the procedure fixed before you proceed. So let’s say that the procedure says “put the plug into the drain” so you do that. Then the next step says to turn on the hot water but you accidentally turn the cold water valve a quarter of a turn and then turn it back. You have just made a mistake. You would be required to stop, turn off the hot water, put the sink back into a safe condition and then go report that you operated the wrong valve. Your supervisor (or in this example your wife or husband) would ask you all sorts of questions about why you operated the cold water valve instead of the hot. This investigation would look for any and all conditions that could have allowed you to do this error. If the valve isn’t labeled properly, identifying which is hot and which is cold, that might be a cause. If you were distracted right before operating the valve and didn’t refocus before proceeding that might be a cause. In the end there would have to be some sort of corrective action created, whether it is something physical, such as the label, or something performance related, such as not refocusing, there would have to be some corrective action.
But you didn’t actually do anything of consequence you say? The nuclear industry doesn’t look at it that way. Operating the wrong equipment is ALWAYS a big deal, even if there was no consequences. Not all errors are reported you say? True. But most are for several reasons. First off is that rarely is anyone working alone. There is often another person to help make sure things are done right. Observations by supervisors, manager et al. are a frequent things. And those observations are critiqued to see if they were intrusive enough…critical enough. Also if you operate a piece of equipment there is usually some impact on a system and all the parameters are constantly monitored. And lastly they are reported because most of the people that work at nuclear plants understand the importance of operating correctly and they will self-identify their problem.
This isn’t spin…this is fact from someone that worked in the industry for 30+ years.